Overtime drops at post-Act 10 Kettle Moraine

8:38 PM,
Jan. 19, 2013

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Overtime expenses fell by 9 percent last year at the Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution near Greenbush, following Act 10 policy changes.

The decrease was part of a wider trend seen at most adult state prisons in 2012, leaving overtime pay at the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to fall by 25 percent, or $10 million. State officials attributed the drop in overtime to a slight increase in hiring and Act 10 changes that altered how overtime is accrued and assigned.

While the DOC still accounted for more than half of all state overtime last year, veteran officers say the trend is ...